A judge has thrown out a lawsuit against Fox News filed by the parents of murdered child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey, saying the network did not defame the couple or their son.

The lawsuit is the first defamation case against the media that the Ramseys have lost.

"While the December 2002 broadcast appears to plaintiffs not to have been fair and balanced towards them, it was not defamatory," US District Judge Phillip Figa said in a 16-page order that dismissed the case.

John and Patsy Ramsey and their son Burke sued Fox, which is owned by News Corp, for defamation they say occurred during a December 2002 report marking the sixth anniversary of JonBenet's death.

The six-year-old girl's slaying has never been solved even though the case gripped America and was discussed ad nauseam on talk radio and cable television.

Her body was discovered on the morning of December 26, 1996, in the family's home in Boulder, Colorado.

The Ramseys, who now live in Michigan, say the report defames them because it says the parents and Mr Burke were the only ones in the home the night of the murder, and that "there has never been any evidence to link an intruder to her brutal murder."

5. sadly, there was an excellent investigative special on last month ...

can't remember if it was 60 minutes or what but it was revealed that there were over 60 known sex offenders, majority child molesters, living within a few miles radius of the Ramsey home in Colorado at the time of the murder. And there was another little girl who survived an invasion into her room from a man they connected with other child molestation acts because one of her parents heard something and got up ...the asshole jumped out the window ...this was just within a few weeks of the Ramsey girl's murder.

The investigation turned up a cover up of some sort ...it was really disgusting to watch ....cops at their finest ...yeah, right...

The disgusting media saw a buck to be made. Local radio host Peter Boyles thought he would be the go-to guy on the case and that it would be his ticket to the big time. He insanely ranted on the case for months. Good Catholic boy Dan Caplis was on board. Slime ball Craig Silverman was clamoring for attention.

There isn't enough money in the world to compensate this family for what they went through.

are as guilty as they come. Pasty knows very well what happened. It was money and political connections that saved their ass. If it wasn't for Hal Haddon, they'd be doing time. Hal Haddon was the same attorney that took Kobe Bryant's rape case. He beat that one too.

I just do not see any kind of motive and what a bunch of Keystone cops the Boulder police were. But I do think parading a child around like a painted up hooker amounts to child abuse. Poor JonBenet - that little girl has never seen any kind of justice.

I followed this case for years. Right from the very beginning, there were overt attempts to manage public opinion. If you recall, immediately after the murder a PR company was hired to answer questions. Now I can understand not wanting to answer questions about your daughter's murder but look back over some of the more notorious murders and ask yourself how many of those in question hired a PR firm.

Those last few shows that were aired re the murder were the product of the Ramsey PR effort.

The ransom letter, supposedly written by 'a small foreign faction,' told the Ramsey's to 'use that good southern common sense,'a phrase often used by Patsy Ramsey.If she did not have a hand in it, she knows exactly who did.I would look no farther than the Ramsey household.

DNA found under JonBenet's fingernails and mixed with her blood in her panties does not match anyone so far connected with the case. It is male DNA. Find the owner of the DNA and you've found the killer.

In a civil case, a judge found the preponderance of the evidence to support an intruder theory; it does not support the theory that the parents or brother did it.

The current DA is no longer investigating the parents; she is pursuing an unknown intruder or intruders.

The legendary detective Lou Smit, formerly an investigator with the DA's office (he resigned because his colleagues at that time refused to follow the evidence, which he believes leads to an intruder), continues to work the case without pay, as does PI Ollie Gray and others. Those who have seen the evidence know the family was not involved in this crime. They were convicted only in the media which poisoned public opinion from the earliest hours of the case. The Ramseys should have won their case against Faux.

It wasn't too long ago that it was revealed that there was another case either in or near Boulder in which another young girl was molested and murdered, in a very similar setting to the Ramsey case. I believe this happened a few months prior to or after the Ramsey case... can't remember.

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